Dr. Sci. Natalia Vladimirovna Kamanina – Leader of the team, Head of the Laboratory for Photophysics of media with nanoobjects at Vavilov State Optical Institute. She coordinates the job of the team, participate at all experiments and analyze the data. Dr. Sci. N.V. Kamanina has current interest in the areas of investigations on inorganic soft materials of the UV and IR range, coatings, organic conjugated materials, liquid crystals, polarizers, laser-matter interaction, nanotechnology, fullerenes and biological objects. She has an experience in nanoparticles doping process of organics, in recording of amplitude-phase thin gratings in thin films as well as in developing of liquid crystal (LC) cells and spatial light modulators; she has an experience in optical limiting effect of laser radiation over visible and infrared spectral ranges, in medical applications of LC structures to orient human blood cell. She has published more than 300 scientific papers, 5 books and 9 handbooks for the students. In parallel of her scientific activity, she has been lecturing from 2001. She is a Professor of the St. Petersburg Electrotechnical University “LETI” (2001-current). She is (was) a supervisor for 30 Master’s Degree Students and for 6 PhD-students: Sergei Serov, Natalia Shurpo, Svetlana Likhomanova, Alxander Kukharchik, Pavel Kuzhakov, Andrey Toikka, which successfully defended their thesis on 2012-2025. At the present time she is a supervisor of 2 student of University 2-3 course, 2 master’s degree students and 4 graduate students.